在后现代社会里,人们对于时间有着特殊的体验:一切只集中在现时上,没有过去,没有历史,时间被压缩为永恒的现在。威廉.加斯的《在中部地区的深处》正是这种后现代主义文化的集中反映和体现。小说支离破碎、非连续性和随意性的元小说特点使线性意义陷入到永恒的现在的压缩时间里去。 In post-modern society, people have a special experience of time: everything is focused on the present, there is no past, no history, time is compressed into an eternal present. It is this concentrated reflection and manifestation of this postmodernist culture that William Gargas has described as “deep in the central region.” The fragmentary, non-continuous and random metafiction features make the linear meaning plunge into the eternal compaction time now.